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THOUGHT  MEANS 
T  RIUMPH ANT  DEMOCRACY  :        ?  ^ 

A  UNITED  STATES  *' 

THE  WORLD. 


An  Address  given  by  HENRY  HARRI- 
SON BROWN  at  the  International  New 
Thought  Congress,  San  Francisco,  Cal., 
Sept.  1,  1915. 

"Peace  on  earth  among 
men  of  Good- Will." 


We  hold  these  truths  to  be  self-evident,  that 
all  men  are  created  equal;  that  they  are  en- 
dowed by  their  creator  with  certain  inalien- 
able rights ;  among  these  rights  are  life,  lib- 
erty and  the  pursuit  of  happiness. — Declara- 
tion of  Independence. 

We  the  people  of  the  United  States,  in  order 
to  form  a  more  perfect  union,  to  establish 
Justice,  do  ordain  and  establish  this  Consti- 
U'iu,i!  iY.r  the  United  States  of  America.  .  . 
Congress  shall  make  no  law  respecting  an  es- 
tablishment of  religion,  or  of  abridgement  of 
the  freedom  of  speech  or  the  press. — Constitu- 
tion oi  the  United  States. 

Four- score  and  seven  years  ago,  our  fathers 
brought  forth  upon  this  continent,  a  new  na- 
tion, conceived  in  liberty  and  dedicated  to  the 
proposition  that  all  men  are  created  equal.  *  * 
We  here  highly  resolve  that  the  dead  shall 
not  have  died  in  vain  ;  that  this  nation  shall 
rnder  Gcd  have  a  new  birth  of  freedom,  and 
that  the  government  of  the  people,  by  the 
people  and  for  the  people  shall  not  perish 
from  the  earth. — Lincoln's  address  at  Gettys- 

*""*'          328424 


It  is  one  huiVt red  and  xhirty-nine  years 
since  that  august  body  in  Philadelphia 
declared  that  "ail  men  are  born  equal," 
and  133  since  from  Independence  Hall 
came  forth  the  document  that  forever 
revolutionized  the  principles  of  govern- 
ment by  placing  it  in  the  hands  of,— 
"We  the  People."  It  is  fifty-one  years 
since  Lincoln  declared  this  government 
"of  the  People  shall  not  perish,"  and  50 
years  since  the  close  of  the  war  which 
cemented  the  confederacy  into  a  nation 
and  thus  settled  the  question  of  the  per- 
petuity of  this  Government  of  the  Peo- 
ple. 

This  Ideal  of  a  government,  "of  the  peo- 
ple," rests  where,  until  that  time,  no  gov- 
ernment or  institution  did  rest,  and  that 
is  upon  faith  in  Man.  Faith  in  kings, 
faith  in  warriors,  faith  in  priests,  faith 
in  some  authority  of  book,  birth  or  gods, 
had  heretofore  been  the  source  of  power 
and  reliance  of  man. 
The  Puritans  of  New  England  had 
sowed  the  seeds  of  this  rebellion  against 
authority,  and  manifested  faith  in  the 
individual  conscience,  when  they  de- 
clared for  "A  state  without  a  kirg1  and 
n  rhnrrh  without  n  hic<hop." 


From  the  French  Encyclopedists  had 
come  into  other  sections  other  streams 
of  rebellion.  The  Hugenots  had  brought 
the  spirit  of  liberty  and  Lord  Baltimore, 
a  Catholic,  had  declared  in  Maryland, 
for  religious  toleration. 
All  this  ferment  had  been  working,  un- 
til it  broke  out  at  Lexington  and  Bunker 
Hill.  Jefferson  had  begun  the  agitation 
in  Virginia  six  years  before,  and  Patrick 
Henry  had  already  thundered  for  Free- 
dom. 

Thus  was  the  Declaration  "All  men  are 
created  equal"  but  the  culmination  of  a 
New  Thought  movement — a  movement 
that  had  been  growing  en  this  soil  for 
over  an  hundred  years. 
"All  men  are  equal" — how?  Not  in 
ability;  not  in  character;  not  in  con- 
science ;  not  in  reason !  No  man  of  av- 
erage intelligence  would  so  affirm.  But 
"endowed  by  their  creator"  are  the 
words.  Thus  all  men  are  equal  before 
that  "Power  behind  phenomena"  which 
is  commonly  called — GOD.  From  iL"" 
the  Fathers  logically  concluded  that  all 
men  should  be  equal  before  the  civil  law. 
This  is  the  American  Ideal.  This  is 
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that  Unity  for  which  New  Thought 
stands — One  God!  One  Life!  One  Hu- 
manity ! 

This  Unity  includes  all  mankind,  all  na- 
tions. In  Ideal;  in  Principle;  our  na- 
tion and  the  New  Thought  movement 
stand  for  the  Universal  Federation  of 
the  World.  One  Universal  Brother- 
hood; one  "Parliament  of  man"  in  which 
all  battle-flags  shall  be  furled! 
We  seek  to  establish  that  era  of  Goocl- 
Vv'iil  among  men  so  that  Universal 
Peace  must  come.  A  Good-Will  which 
must  precede  any  desired  era  of  peace! 
With  Good-Will—Peace  Is. 
During  all  those  139  years  events  have 
been  moving  continually  toward  the  rec- 
ognition of  equality,  and  to  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  government  among  the 
people,  and  by  the  people,  and  for  the 
people.  It  has  not  yet  been  realized  in 
its  fulness  but  the  Perfect  is  on  the  way. 
We  are  doing  our  part  to  help  its  reali- 
zation. 

There  is  one  Principle  upon  which  all 
the  various  cults  embraced  under  the 
generic  term  New  Thought  unite,  and 
that  is — The  Divinity  of  the  Human 


Soui,  and  its  infinite  possibilities.  Man 
is  the  one  conscious  expression  of  the 
one  Power  which  we  term  Mind,  or 
God. 

This  statement  of  the  Declaration  which 
the  Fathers  saw  as  a  Principle,  they  ap- 
plied as  they  were  obliged  or  otherwise 
fail  in  their  attempt  to  organize  a  gov- 
ernment, and  so  did  not  include  in  "We 
the  people''  woman  and  the  black  man. 
We  have  grown  so  that  we  recognize 
that  this  Principle  of  equality  has  no 
more  limitation  than  a  principle  of  math- 
ematics, and  today  the  black  man,  and 
in  many  states  woman,  is  the  equal,  un- 
der the  law,  with  man.  It  will  not  be 
long  till  she  is  so  recognized  in  every 
state,  and  I  will  add,  in  every  nation. 
All  are  of  One  Spirit.  It  is  our  purpose 
to  so  teach  that  each  person  shall  see 
this  Unity.  Then  we  shall  be  One  Peo- 
ple, and  in  time  all  people  shall  be  one 
nation. 

When  I  realize  that  I  am  my  brother, 
and  iny  brother  is  I,  then  will  all  wars 
cease,  for  all  wars  are  born  in  competi- 
tion, born  of  wanting  something  my 
brother  has,  whether  they  be  wars  be- 

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tween  neighbors,  merchants,  states,  or 
nations.  Good-Will  as  my  brother  will 
bring  co-operation  and  communion 
where  discord  and  dissension  is  impos- 
sible. 

Wherever  and  whenever  this  Principle 
•of  our  Fathers  is  lived  there  is  peace. 
"WE  the  people"  are  one  Soul,  as  we 
are  one  blood.  I  and  my  Father  are 
one.  I  aru  in  him  and  he  is  in  me.  In 
him  all  are  One!  What  is  for  my  good 
is  for  my  brother's  good,  and  what  is 
for  my  harm  is  for  my  brother's  harm. 
The  harm  or  the  good  of  one  is  equally 
true  of  all. 

Act  from  Universal  Principles,  must  be 
the  rule  of  each  individual  life. 
Never  was  a  Principle  of  government, 
or  of  personal  conduct,  so  all-embracing 
and  so  greatly  stated  in  that  most  in- 
spired of  all  documents,  the  Declaration 
of  Independence.  It  is  an  Eternal  Char- 
ter of  Liberty,  for  the  constant  unfold- 
ing soul  of  man.  It  frees  the  individ- 
ual from  all  authority  outside  himself, 
and  places  all  authority  within  the  man. 
"We  the  people!"  are  not  only  freed 
from  all  external  authority  in  all  ques- 


oi  right,  but  we  are  responsible 
that  we  maintain  this  Freedom  and  per- 
petuate it,  and  thus  pass  it  down  unim- 
paired to  our  children. 

As  a  free-born,  or  as  a  naturalized 
American,  there  has  been  placed  in  my 
hand  the  scepter  and  the  miter  hereto- 
fore wielded  by  king  and  priest.  I  AM 
THE  GOVERNMENT.  Of  necessity  I 
should  first  be  self-governed  that  I  may 
in  turn  be  a  safe  integral  part  of  the  one 
government.  When  the  individual  is 
selfrgoverned  then  will  the  nation  be 
wisely  governed.  The  first  duty  then  is 
for  each  to  learn  and  each  to  teach  the 
Divinity  of  the  Soul  and  to  inspire  men 
to  its  expression. 

"Upon  me,"  each  citizen  should  affirm, 
''upon  me  depends  the  just  settlement  of 
all  questions  of  national  and  internation- 
al importance !" 

Do  you  understand  that  here  in  this  Am- 
erica, we  have  a  New  Thought  govern- 
ment? A  new  experience  in  all  history? 
Here  for  the  first  time  is  authority 
placed  within  the  individual.  Where  do 
you  as  a  New  Thought  person  place  the 
responsibility  and  authority  for  ycur 
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health  and  happiness?  You  place  it 
where  it  is  placed  in  the  Constitution  of 
the  United  States.  The  first  truly  loyal 
citizens  of  any  nation  are  we.  We  say 
in  our  lives  "Amen  "  to  the  statement 
of  78.  Within  is  the  Throne  of  God. 
From  that  throne  issue  all  the  edicts 
which  we  obey  every  waking  moment  of 
life. 

It  is  our  mission  to  develop  this  con- 
sciousness in  the  people  till  they  by  be- 
coming self-reliant  and  self-respecting 
shall  indeed  form  a  nation  of  self-gov- 
erned people  whose  only  authority  is  the 
Inward  Voice,  which  ever  thunders  — 
"DO  RIGHT!" 

It  is  the  mightiest  task  a  people  ever  set 
for  themselves  to  build  a  nation  of  in- 
dividuals where  the  state  is  for  man  and 
not  man  for  the  state.  One  hundred 
and  thirty-nine  years  is  but  a  tick  of  the 
clock  of  progress  measured  by  the  task 
before  us.  But  the  Idealism  of  76  shall 
yet  become  an  objective  reality.  We  are 
on  the  way  and  Democracy  is  coming. 
During  this  century  and  a  quarter  the 
Principle  of  liberty — of  democracy,  has 
been  possessing  the  people.  When 
Thomas  Paine  thought  out  the  Declara- 


tion  which  Jefferson's  hand  wrote  oui 
thought  would  have  found  no  sympathy 
When  Paine  said,  ''The  world  my  coun- 
try and  to  do  good  my  religion!"  it  was 
heresy  and  still  worse  was  his  heresy 
when  he  said,  "I  believe  in  One  God  and 
no  more  and  hope  for  happiness  beyond 
this  life" — for  there  were  then  three 
Gods,  and  no  man,  not  a  churchman,  had 
a  right  to  hope  for  happiness  beyond 
this  earth  life.  He  was  persecuted  and 
socially  ostracised.  And  today  an  Ex- 
rresident  calls  him  "A  dirty  little  in- 
fidel!" 

But  we  proclaim  it,  and  are  received 
with  acclaim.  The  opinions  of  men  do 
change.  We  have  passed  the  persecu- 
tion stage.  We  have  no  longer  tolera- 
tion or  merely  statute  law  protection,  but 
we  possess  in  almost  perfection,  the 
guarantee  of  no  meddling  with  free 
speech. 

The  heart  of  the  people  is  always  right. 
All  we  need  is  to  give  way  to  the  natu- 
ral impulses  of  man  and  that  human 
heart  l;ein-;r  Love  all  will  be  peace. 
Truth  is  finding  its  way  and  we  trust  it. 
r\  he  Thinker  his  come  and  the  Thinker 
n:lcs.  Erner>un  warns  us  to  "Beware 
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when  the  gmtt  Ood  lets  toose  the  Think- 
er,    For  then  all  things  are  at  his  mer- 


Ihe  wisdom  of  the  Fathers  is  now  made 
manifest  in  this  great  body  who  echo 
back  across  the  centuries — "The  soul  of 
man  can  be  trusted  to  the  end!'' 
I  wish  you  to  see  where  you- — where 
this  Congress  stands,  in  the  march  to- 
ward Freedom.  I  wish  you  to  feel  with 
me  the  great  debt  we  owe  and  the  great 
responsibility  that  rests  upon  each  as  in- 
heritors of  the  spirt  of  '76  and  the  in- 
stitutions born  from  it.  As  children  of 
that  early  Idealism  that  materialized  the 
United  States  of  America  it  devolves 
upon  us  to  materialize  "THE  UNITED 
STATES  OF  THE  WORLD!"  This 
is  our  manifest  destiny.  This  is  the 
mission  of  America  among  the  nations 
of  the  world. 

As  they  were  the  Fathers  of  "Many 
made  One"  so  we,  New  Thought  peo- 
ple— and  I  say  it  with  a  full  heart  and 
with  a  loyalty  to  which  my  life  is  con- 
centrated— it  is  our  duty  to  crystahze 
the  spirit  of  today  as  they  did  the  spirit 
of  unrest  of  '76.  In  the  dawn  of  the 
twentieth  century  we  hold  as  important 
place  in  the  world's  history  as  did  the 


minute  men  of  Concord,  Putnam  at 
Bunker  Hill  and  Patrick  Henry  in  the 
Legislature  of  Virginia.  Soon  there  will 
be  a  crystal  organized  that  will,  in  the 
Spirit  of  the  old  Liberty  Bell,  proclaim 
Freedom  through  the  world. 
It  is  to  us,  the  only  body  today  dealing 
with  CONSTRUCTIVE  THOUGHT, 
to  see  that  that  proclamation  is  made  an 
universal  reality. 

All  the  world  but  the  United  States 
seems  in  chaotic  conditions.  Ecclesiasti- 
cism  has  lost  its  hold ;  it  has  failed  when 
the  test  came;  war  is  rampant  among 
the  great  nations  which  have  called 
themselves  Christian.  The  church  is 
powerless.  Socialism  is  powerless.  Ev- 
ery institution  that  has  claimed  to  stand 
for  brotherhood  has  failed.  The  Red 
Cross  welds  all  into  one  in  its  sympathy, 
and  while  it  has  no  constructive  power, 
it  is  preparing  the  way  for  the 
thought  of  that  Unity,  which  can 
only  come  through  suffering.  But  here, 
we  are  an  International  Body  with  Uni- 
versal Truth  and  Love  for  our  power, 
and  WE  ARE  THE  ONE  AND  THE 
ONLY  i-ODY  THAT  REPRESENTS 
THE  SPIRIT  OF  THE  NOW,  AND 
WEO  HOLD  •  A  CONSTRUCTIVE 


IDEAL  FOR  THE  WORLD.  WE 
KNOW  THE  POWER  OF  THOUiHT. 
THE  POWER  OF  TRUTH;  THE 
CONSTRUCTIVE  POWER  OF  THE 
IDEAL  and  upon  us  has  fallen  the  man- 
tle of  the  prophets  and  we  must  fulfill 
that  which  they  have  foreseen  and  bring 
about  a  Universal  Brotherhood. 
This  Universal  Federation  cannot  come 
through  legislation.  It  cannot  come  by 
any  artificial  means.  Nature's  evolution 
of  the  human  heart's  expression  which 
is  Friendship,  is  its  only  way.  Improved 
economic  conditions  will  not  bring  it, 
for  they  will  not  eliminate  selfishness 
from  the  heart.  It  will  never  come 
through  physical  or  social  hygiene. 
These  do  not  reach,  and  only  mitigate 
the  evil.  All  conditions  which  the  world 
does  not  find  to  its  advantage  as  joy 
Lringer,  as  experience  shall  decide,  will 
fall  cff  the  body  politic,  and  social,  as 
leaves  from  the  trees  in  autumn.  Only 
the  best  of  each  generation  will  remain 
for  future  use,  and  when  this  is  out- 
grown it  will  also  fall  away. 
The  end  of  present  undesired  conditions 
can  come  and  will  come  through  the 
awakened  consciousness  of  Man.  Con- 
sciousness of  his  Divinity  and  his  Unity 


with  all  the  race.  He  must  come  to  a 
realization  not  only  that  "I  and  my 
Father  are  One"  but  that  I  and  my 
Brother  are  One.  Consciousness  of  the 
One  Indwelling  God  will  create  that 
feeling  of  Brotherhood  which  will  result 
in  an  era  of  Good-Will  which  must  pre- 
cede any  era  of  peace. 
This  is  seen  by  many  whose  occupation 
is  war.  Sir  Francis  Younghusband,  who 
led  the  British  army  to  Thibet,  in  a  re- 
cent article  says: 

Men  who  regard  themselves  as  integral  parts 
of  the  whole,  with  every  other  single  part  of 
which  they  are  most  related,  and  who  also 
realize  that  each,  in  his  own  small  degree, 
contributes  to  form  that  spirit  which  has  made 
them,  will  have  not  only  this  deep  sense  of 
unity,  but  a  craving  to  make  it  closer.  They 
will  resent  the  tyranny  of  a  rigid  order  im- 
posed from  outside,  but  they  will  establish 
for  themselves  that  full  and  flexible  orcic* 
which  free  individuals  possess  of  a  sense  of 
responsibility  which  freedom  engenders,  and 
naturally  evolve  for  themselves.  They  will 
allow  full  scope  for  individuality,  for  they 
will  know  that  thereby  will  unity  be  increased. 
.  .  .  It  is  not  so  much  peace  and  rest  to 
which  they  look  forward,  as  the  harmony 
which  comes  of  activity, — an  activity  bent  on 
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frsimr    all    discords.     .     .     Men    imbued   with, 
the    Universal    Spirit    will    be    sensible    of    it 
working-    through    them,    making    always    for 
what   is   good  ;   propelling  them  upward. 
"The    right   to    Life,"    say   our   organic 
law,  "and  the  right  to  liberty  are  one/' 
Only  under  liberty  can  life  have  its  full 
expression.     But  liberty  is  a  constantly 
unfolding  Principle.     Its     definition     is 
never  the  same  in  any  two  generations. 
The   Liberty  dreamed  in   '76   would  be 
tyranny    now,    and   our   liberty     would 
have  meant     license     to     them.     Even 
Paine  and  Jefferson  would  have  shrunk 
in  terror   from  present  individual   free- 
dom and  the  spirit  of  Hamilton  if  it  has 
not  kept  in  touch  with  mundane  affairs, 
will  see  that  all  he  feared  has  come  upon 
us.     But  because  we  have  trusted  the 
Principle  they  announced,  we  are  freer, 
and   I  believe  happier,  than  were     our 
Fathers.     All  this  advance  has  come  as 
all   growth   in   individuals   and     nations 
comes  through  suffering,     pain,     agony, 
tears,  and  blood. 

O  Freedom  thou  art  not  as  poets  dream, 
A  fair  young  girl  with  light  and  delicate  limbs 
And  wavy  trtsses  gushing  from  the  cap 

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With  which  the   Roman  master  crowned   his 

slave 

When  he  took  off  the  gyves.  A  bearded  man 
Armed  to  the  teeth  art  thou ;  one  mailed  hand 
Grasps  the  broad  shield  and  one  the  sword; 

thy  brow 

Glorious  in  Beauty  though  it  be,  is  scarred 
With  tokens  of  old  wars ;  thy  massive  limbs 
Are   strong   with   struggling.     Power  at  thee 

has  launched 
His    bolts    and    with    his    lightenings    smitten 

thee, 
They  could  not  quench  the  power  thou  hast 

from    heaven.  — Bryant. 

And  the  struggle  for  Freedom  is  as 
great  new  as  ever  in  the  past.  It  has 
changed  its  fields,  its  methods  and  its 
weapons.  The  first  struggle  that  greets 
us  in  the  objective  world  is  the  struggle 
for  economic  freedom,  for  what  we  in 
New  Thought  term  prosperity  or  opu- 
lence. There  must  be  freedom  from  the 
present  slavery  of  wages  on  the  one 
hand,  and  the  equally  oppressive  slavery 
of  over-possession  on  the  other.  All  the 
attempts  toward  this  is  but  the  attempt 
of  Justice  to  balance  her  scales.  As  long 
as  men  live  to  possess  rather  than  to  Be; 
as  long  as  possession  is  sought,  and  Be- 
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ing  ignored,  the  scales  of  Justice  will 
never  balance. 

But  we  are  nearer  Justice  in  every  av- 
enue of  human  endeavor  than  we  were 
one  hundred  years  ago.  We  are  indeed 
our  brother's  keeper.  But  1  am  net  to 
think  for  him.  Am  not  authority  for  him. 
Am  not  to  make  rules  and  regulations 
for  his  thought  and  conduct.  I  am  not 
to  be  a  post  for  him  to  lean  upon.  I  am 
not  to  save  him  from  the  effects  of  his 
thinking.  I  am  to  leave  him  as  free  as 
I  wish  to  be  myself.  I  am  to  see  that 
he  has  equal  opportunities  with  myself, 
then,  if  he  refuses  to  use  them,  I  am  to 
leave  him  to  the  Law  of  Justice,  but  I 
am  to  love  him  under  all  conditions,  as 
my  brother  still. 

Economic  liberty  when  it  comes  will  be 
only  the  John  the  Baptist  to  that  Jarger 
Liberty  of  the  Sons  of  God;  that  spir- 
itual liberty  which  we  foresee  and  to- 
ward which  we  work.  When  that  lib- 
erty dawns  we  shall  be  a  self-governed 
nation  of  self-governed  individuals, 
whose  God  is  Love,  and  where  till  men 
are  brothers  and  all  life  is  co-operative 
This  is  Democracy.  Kcar  Whitman's 

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declaration : — • 

I  speak  the  watchword  primeval — Democracy. 
By  God!  I  swear  I  will  have  nothing  that 
every  man  cannot  have  the  counterpart  of  on 
equal  terms. 

This  is  the  Spirit  and  the  Purpose  of 
New  Thought.  As  far  as  I  know  it  1^ 
the  motive  of  every  editor  and  teacher, 
healer  and  lover  in  our  ranks  in  this, 
the  last  and  greatest  demand  for  Free- 
dom. All  around  is  chaos.  The  world  is 
in  the  birth-throes  of  a  new  era.  Old 
institutions  are  tumbling  Old  methods 
have  all  been  tried  and  found  wanting. 
The  most  progressive  nations  are  prov- 
ing that  education,  culture,  theology  and 
politics  are  impotent  to  save  from  war. 
If  we  look  only  on  one  side  we  may  well 
believe  that  the  end  of  civilization  is 
near.  There  is  a  rampant  holocaust  of 
destructive  thought.  Where  are  the 
builders?  Where  is  the  savior? 
Only  a  movement  that  will  look  above 
the  clouds  and  will  come  vith  the  con- 
sciousness that  thought  is  Power  and 
with  an  Ideal  of  Universal  Brotherhood, 
and  with  constructive  thought,  will  be 
equal  to  the  work  of  reconstruction. 
Now  is  that  psychological  moment  when 


the  Savior  can  come,  and  can  save. 

And  the  saving  power,  the  savi??.v;  move- 
ment, is  here.  This  world-wkU:  move- 
ment, called  New  Thought,  is  the  one, 
??ad  the  only,  movement  before  the  race 
today  that  comes  constructively.  We 
know  the  power  of  Silence.  We  know 
that  Though:  is  creative,  and  amid  all 
this  tumult  and  chaos  we  speak  the 
WORD  and  it  will  create  more  than  a 
Tabled  Eden.  As  God  spoke  Light  into 
being  and  Jesus  calmed  the  troubled 
sea,  so  we,  a  million  people  with  under- 
standing of  our  Constructive  power, 
speak  the  word  PEACE,  and  peace  IS, 
and  that  which  IS  in  the  world  of  Re- 
a"ty,  will  soon  be  seen  in  the  world  of 
the  objective. 

but  among  t*>e  inalienable  rights  is  that 
U»  Life.  This  statement  is  not  alone  the 
recognition  of  the  right  to  life,  but  the 
recognition  of  the  fact  that  Life  is,  and 
it  is  for  me.  We  claim  Life,  and  we  pro- 
claim with  T'.r.th  "I  come  that  ye  may 
have  life  and  have  it  more  abundantly/' 
and  the  slavery  of  disease  mtibt  end.  Not 
alone  the  right  to  life  and  liberty,  but 

I  will  be,  in  inv  own  person,  life  ?nd  lib 

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crty.  Will  live  in  that  larger  liberty 
possessed  by  the  equal  sons  of  a  co-nmc  u 
iather,  where  there  are  no  limitations  of 
wealth,  custnm,  education,  ncr  even 
those  of  vice  and  virtue.  Ail  these  are 
unknown.  We  have  ushered  in  Uie  thou* 
band  years  of  Unity  of  Spirit,  where  w^ 
recognize  only  the  Divinity  of  the  hu- 
man soul  and  demand  for  each  expres- 
sion of  tl:;it  soul,  equal  opportunities. 
Freedom  comes  in  those  successive  steps 
in  which  the  intellect  of  man  translates 
the  emotions  into  action. 
We  start  at  birth  full  of  the  animal,  and 
are  slowly  "crushing  out  the  ape  and  let- 
ting the  tiger  die/'  In  this  growing  con- 
sciousness of  ourselves  as  POWER  TO 
\VILL  AND  TO  DO  we  are  fast  over- 
coming conditions  and  shall  conquer  the 
last  three  enemies  or  the  race — poverty, 
disease  and  the  involuntarily  leaving  the 
body  by  the  present  process  of  death. 
Man  will  eventually  leave  his  body  when 
he  chooses,  and  at  will  will  take  it  up 
again.  Through  the  power  of  his 
thought,  he  will  overcome  all  the  condi- 
tions of  mortality  and  will  consciously 
live  an  immort'u  Being  here  and  now. 


Our  first  freedom  came  at  birth;  the 
next  when  free  from  mother's  arms  and 
breasts.  The  last  physical  step  was  tak- 
en when  we  becai  le  capable  of  earning 
our  living. 

Intellectual  liberty  has  progressed  along 
with  thir.  physical  liberty.  Few  reach 
liberty  in  tko'ight  for  instead  of  resting 
upon  their  own  ability  to  perceive  truth, 
they  accept  statements  from  some  au- 
thority. Few  have  in  all  history  ex- 
pressed this  intellectual  freedom.  Am- 
erica has  placed,  in  the  panthenon  of  the 
gods,  two  men  who  represent  her  nine- 
teenth century  freedom.  When  these 
two  were  ushered  in  the  gods  of  old 
times  arose  and  vacating  their  seats  gave 
Ultra  the  places  of  honor,  and  these  two 
— Emerson  and  Walt  Whitman. 
Complete  emancipation  comes  only 
when  we  declare,  as  did  Emerson  and 
Walt  declare,  our  own  divinity,  and  live 
in  perfect  trust  in  ourselves. 
Here  is  my  declaration  of  complete  in- 
r!rr»endcnce  as  taurrht  nie  by  Emerson: — 
I  TRUST  MYSELF.  MY  HEART  VI- 
BRATES TO  THAT  IRON  STRING. 
I  ACCEPT  THE  PLACE  DIVINE 

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PROVIDENCE  HAS  FOUND  FOR 
ME.  THE  CONNECTION  Ob 
EVENTS;  THE  SOCIETY  OF  MY 
CONTEMPORARIES.  ALL  GREAT 
MEN  DO -THIS  AND  I  DO  IT  ALSO. 
I  AM  SURE  THAT  THE  ABSO- 
L,  ^LY  TRUSTWORTHY  IS 
WORKING  THROUGH  MY  HANDS, 
IS  BEATING  IN  MY  HEART  AND 
IS  PERMEATING  ALL  MY  BEING. 
This  is  the  Spirit  of  American  citizen- 
ship, and  when  it  becomes  the  manifest 
spirit,  then  the  government  of  the  people 
\vili  surely  be  a  government  for  the  peo- 
ple and  it  will  never  perish  from  the 
earth.  This  coming  is  delayed  by  the 
conservatism,  pessimism,  lack  of  trust  in 
man,  and  the  fears  of  the  timid  and  most 
of  all  by  those  who  trust  the  past  only 
and  who  cry  for  a  precedent  and  for 
authority.  A  "Thus  said  the  Lord"  will 
keep  back  the  car  of  progress  for  an 
hundred  years,  when  a  "Thus  saith  the 
heart  of  man!1'  would  bring  brother- 
hood and  peace. 

There  must  come  today,  to  all,  that  faith 
i:i  the  Self,  that  Luther  had  when  he 
declared  "Here  I  stand!  I  can  no  oth- 

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er!  God  helping  inei" 
We  are  very  near  the  dark  and  bloody 
gi^i.nd  of  Europe  but  we  are  in  the 
dawn  of  Europe's  greater  day.  The  tale 
is  told  that  upon  Calvary  the  sun  was 
darkened  and  the  earth  shook.  So  do 
the  clouds  of  war  always  darken  the 
sun  and  shake  the  earth.  But  as  that 
darkness  presaged  the  Resurrection,  so 
does  this  upheaval  prophesy  the  awak- 
ening of  the  Soul  of  Man  from  the 
grave  of  militarism,  selfishness  and  ma- 
terialism and  death. 

I  TRUST  MYSELF!  hereafter  will  be 
his  watchword. 

The  Christ  that  was  to  coine  is  here! 
Christ  is  not  a  personality  but  a  Prin- 
ciple inherent  in  every  soul.  It  is  the 
Principle  that  inspired  Jesus  and 
led  to  the  cross,  and  it  has  inspired  ev- 
ery teacher,  lover  and  martyr  in  all 
times  and  all  lands. 

It  is  here !  It  has  been  precipitated  from 
the  Universal  and  crystallized  its  body 
in  this  Congress.  It  is  today  as  un- 
known and  as  unperceived,  as  it  always 
has  been,  by  the  generation  that  gave 

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it  birth,  but  upon  the  grave  of  today 
will  be  built  monuments  to  the  Messiah's 
advent. 

The  truth  embodied  in  our  fundamental 
Law  is  the  Christ  Principle,  that  shall 
bring  in  a  Triumphant  Democracy.  A 
redemption  from  the  ill,  the  authority  and 
the  grind  of  a  false  system  of  wealth, 
that  allows  one  person  to  possess  more 
than  is  necessary  for  his  own  life  ex- 
pression, while  ethers  want. 
Democracy — equality — is  the  world  sa- 
vior. We,  New  Thought  people,  are 
the  first  great  body  who  have  attempted 
to  bring  scientifically  and  by  practical 
word  the  Kingdom  of  the  Good  upon 
earth.  That  kingdom  has  always  been 
here.  The  early  teacher  said,  "It  is  at 
hand!"  Turn  and  grasp  that  hand  of 
Love,  always  extended  by  man  to  man. 
It  is  there.  Look  for  it !  Expect  it !  and 
you  shall  find  it.  In  that  kingdom  stands 
the  altruist  declaring  "All  is  mine.  And 
all  is  yours.  There  is  no  mine  and 
thine  for  we  are  one  "  Supply  is  in-' 
finite,  and  always  there  is  enough  for 
( rich  and  all. 
Come  and  be  healed!  We  pray  I-P.M!- 


risniy: — "May  thy  kingdom  come  on 
earth !"  We  care  for  no  other  kingdom, 
nor  time,  but  always  enough  for  NOW 
AND  HERE!  This  kingdom  lies  in  the 
faith  of  the  Quaker  poet  when  he 

'insi  : 

j'9 

I  know  not  where  His  islands  lift 
Their  fronded  palms  in  air; 

I  only  know,  1  cannot  drift, 
Beyond  His  love  and  care. 

'ih^t  kingdom  of  the  Good  comes 
through  the  recognition  that  it  is  here 
the  moment  we  look  to  the  Law  of 
Causation  and  realise  Cause  and  Effect 
as  its  Chancellors.  Think  Goodness  and 
Goodness  is.  Think  righteousness  and 
righteousness  is!  By  thought  we  build 
it  within  where  all  Goodness  dwells. 

Affirm:  /  am  the  Kingdom  of  the  Good! 
and  let  it  bring  forth  the  fruits  of  th* 
Spirit.  Emerson  says,  "God  hid  the 
whole  world  in  thy  heart,"  and  also  af- 
firmed :  ''The  whole  future  lies  in  the 
bottom  of  his  heart."  Mind,  "heart " 
net  intellect.  In  his  Love  and  not  in  hi« 
thought.  Let  it,  en  the  waves  of  your 
emotion,  find  its  objective  expression, 
for  LOVE  IS  ALL  POWER,  and  in 
giving  Love  in  Friendship  we  fulfill  the 

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Law — we  fill  the  Law  full. 
There  is  but  One  law,  the  law  of  Love, 
which  is  the  Law  of  Desire.  What  1 
desire,  I  have  already  in  Reality,  or  I 
could  not  desire  it.  1  am  Will  to  bring 
it  forth.  Desire  and  Will  lead  to  Expec- 
tation, c.nd  of  these  three  all  material 
things  are  mine.  For  I  am  an  individ- 
ualized expression  of  the  Absolute  One. 
Through  me  the  Absolute  rim-i;  con- 
tinue Its  work  of  Creation. 
The  Absolute  made  a  world  of  mineral, 
vegetable  and  animal  life,  and  It  could 
do  no  more  till,  through  Man,  came 
Thought,  and  in  Man  God  thinks,  and 
by  Thought  continues  creation.  With- 
out Man  not  a  nail.  With  Man  see  this 
Exposition. 

Without  Man,  God  would  have  con- 
tinued to  swim  in  the  fish,  to  croak 
in  the  frog,  to  sing  in  the  bird,  and  to 
blossom  in  the  rose.  But  in  Man  the 
Absolute  will  express  all  possibilies  of 
Being  through  new  creations  forever. 
Therefore  the  time  has  come  when  Man 
in  consciousness  of  his  Divinity  must 
now  declare  his  freedom  of  limitations, 
that  in  this  faith  God  mav  continue 


through  liim  the  process  of  Evolution. 
It  13  for  this  Alliance  to  teach  Man  to 
proclaim— I  AM  FREE!  In  his  percep- 
tion of  infinite  possibilities  he  is  to  af- 
firm :— I  AM  FREE  TO  EXPRESS 
THE  DIVINITY  I  AM  i 
Every  condition  of  consciousness  that  is 
possible  to  Infinity  I  am  now.  I  am  to 
knew  this,  and  to  give  each  clay  a  fuller 
expression  of  that  which  I  am.  Know- 
ing this  I  am  to  affirm— I  AM  THE 
LAV/!  Because  of  this  fact  affirmed  in 
the  Declaration  "WE,  THE  PEOPLE," 
ARE  THE  LAW,  AND  BEYOND  US 
THERE  IS  NO  OTHER! 
My  work,  therefore,  lie^>  with  myself, 
and  within  myself.  And  that  work  is 
simply  to  KNOW  MYSELF. 
Over  the  expressions  of  life  in  any  per- 
son or  nature  I  have  neither  right  nor 
wish  to  interfere.  If  the  wind  cools  my 
cheek  gratefully  that  is  Good.  If  it 
carries  me  by  cyclone  into  the  Bay  still 
it  is  Good.  For  alone  am  I  to  decide 
\vhat  shall  be  the  effect  upon  me.  And 
I  have  decided  that  whatever  conies  IT 
shall  produce  for  me  and  in  me  Good. 
Work  toward  me  your  sweet  will,  my 

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brother,  no  sii  latter  'il  uo  you  it 'shall  « 
that  you  give  me  hate.  I  shall  not  know 
it  so,  for  it  will  be  still  to  me  your  own 
sweet  will,  for  I  will  sec  the  Divinity 
which  is  behind  it  all  and  that  Divinity 
cannot  wrong  me,  if  it  would. 
I  am  not  an  aspen  leaf  to  be  fluttered  by 
every  whiff  of  emotion  frcm  niy  neigh- 
bors. I  AM  THE  ROCK  OF  AGES. 
NOTHING  EXTERNAL  TO  ME 
CAN  MOVE  ME !  If  I  like  the  sensa- 
tion I'll  repeat  it.  If  I  do  not  like  it, 
I'll  refrain. 

I  have  learned  that  every  friendly  act 
produces  in  me  happiness,  therefore  I 
am  at  all  times  and  in  all  places  and  to 
all  persons,  A  FRIEND. 
The  only  test  and  the  only  epithet  of 
character  that  is  worth  anything,  is  that 
which  w^e  pay  to  Jesus — HE  WAS  A 
FRIEND  OF  PUBLICANS  AND 
SINNERS. 

Only  that  we  fail  by  lack  of  friendship 
to  transmute  them,  there  are  to  us  pub- 
licans and  sinners.  I  have  trans- 
formed them  through  my  Love  to 
FRIENDS.  When  I  so  live,  when  I  so 
recognize,  mv  divinitv  and  the  divinity 


of -rill,  Uicr?  has  Goodjjos.s  done  its  per- 
fect work,  and  eternity  has  for  me  no 
higher  plane  of  expression,  and  I  may 
forever  continue  to  evolve  in  this  life  of 
LOVE. 

In  this  consciousness  of  the  Wholeness 
of  the  Universe,  I  realize  that  I  have 
nothing  that  is  not  all  men's.  That  pos- 
session is  robbery,  and  that  I  am  to  de- 
pend upon  Infinite  Supply  from  which, 
when  I  take,  I  take  from  no  man  that 
which  is  his  need.  I  shall  have  passed 
into  that  opulence  which  was  Jesus' 
when  he  said  he  had  neither,  like  foxes 
or  birds,  the  necessity  for  possession, 
because  all  was  him.  The  hearts  and 
hopes  of  all  men  was  his,  and  at  need 

the  Law  would  materialize  coin  or  bread 
My  wealth  is  common,  I  possess 

No  petty  province,  but  the  Whole! 
t's  mine  alone  is  mine  still  less 

Than  treasure  shared  by  every  soul. 
1   have  a  stake  in  every  star 

in  every  flower  that  gems  the  day. 
All   hearts   of  men  my  coffers   are 

My   oars,   arterial   tides   convey. 
"All  mine  is  thine"  the   Sky-Soul  saith, 

The   wealth   I   am  thou  must  become, 
Richer  and  richer,  breath  by  breath, 

Immortal    gain,    Immortal    room!"'' 
And  since  all  his  mine  also  is, 

Life's   gifts   outrun    my   fancies    far, 
And   drowns  the   dream  in   larger  stream 

As   morning  drinks  the  morning  star. 
— D.  A.   U'asson. 


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